moon cake Emoji

The moon cake emoji represents a specific food or drink item, commonly used literally in conversation about meals and menus, or informally to signal mood, plans, or cultural/regional identity tied to that dish.

Category context: The Food & Drink category covers fruits, vegetables, prepared dishes, and beverages from cuisines around the world — a category that has expanded significantly over the years as Unicode added more culturally diverse food items beyond early Western-centric selections.

Cataloged under Food Asian within the Food & Drink category, moon cake is the 44th of 131 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 11 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F96E.

💡 Good to know: For actual nutrition or allergen-related content, always pair this emoji with explicit text rather than relying on the symbol alone, since visual style can be ambiguous or misleading.